The Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival , or LUFF , is a cinema festival and of music underground which is held each year with Lausanne, in Suisse. At the origin of the LUFF Association for the promotion of the independent cinema was created (APCI). The festival thus rests on an association which, in fact, is with nonlucrative goal.

The original intention of the LUFF is to often present unknown films of the circuits of diffusion general public, experimental. Projections, which take place in day and evening, are followed the night of musical events animated by artists close to the scene underground. Three prices (for an entire amount of 8000 france in 2006) are decreed by the festival, in order to allow the Réalisateur S preceded to continue their Article the budget of the festival is assembled to 300.000 Swiss francs (200 000 euros).

History of the LUFF

Initially baptized Nights Underground , the festival, which draws its inspiration from the New York Underground Film Festival, was born in 1995 with Vevey, with completely selected programming with New York. The following years, he affirms his singularity gradually. Of a small room of thirty places the first year, he manages to gather more than one thousand of spectators in 2000. In 2002, after one year of pause, the festival moves in Lausanne thanks to the support of the Swiss Cinémathèque. This year, the first official edition of the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival is, with 4000 visitors, a popular real success, which will nothing but do develop with the passing of years, to reach 8000 spectators in 2005. By programming an international selection and while paying homage to great names of the scene underground like Nick Zedd, John Waters, Lloyd Kaufman, Ian Kerkhof, Kenneth Anger or the Kuchar brothers, like by in parallel organizing musical evenings of quality with names such as Jimi Tenor, Hanin Elias, Animal Techno, Chicks one Speed, Rhys Chatham, Pansonic or Alan Vega, the fame of the LUFF largely exceed from now on the Swiss borders.

Fifth edition

The fifth edition of the LUFF (from October 11th to 15th 2006) proposed in particular a glance on the Actionnisme Viennese, a retrospective Jonas Mekas, programming sXprmntl selected by Roland Lethem with films of Thierry Zéno, Philippe Caufriez, Patrice Bauduinet, Patrick Hella and a cycle Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Side music, Genesis P-Orridge, Lydia Buffet, John Duncan, The Haters, Gabi Delgado, Kid 606, Spectrum, inter alia, animated the evenings.

Price

• 2006 - Better Feature-length film: by and

• 2006 - Better Short film of Fiction: Memory Lapse by Scott Amos
• 2006 - Better Experimental Short film: Emerges by Stephan Broc

Fourth edition

Price

• 2005 - Better Feature-length film: Die You Zombie Bastards ! by Caleb Emerson

• 2005 - Better Short film of Fiction: Clean by Geoffrey Engelbrecht
• 2005 - Better Experimental Short film: Grau by Robert Seidl and Fiddler' S Green by Jean-Claude Campell and Marco Bowald

See too

External bonds

• Official site of the '' Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival ''